Also Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to postpone the recall election, arguing that it will take until March to replace punch-card voting machines the group claims would disenfranchise thousands of Californians.

The three inmates - a drug smuggler, an arsonist and a man serving life for manslaughter - are seeking a declaration that the 1983 Representation of the People Act, which disenfranchises them, is incompatible with their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, as set out in the 1998 Human Rights Act.

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